Street-railway car.



P. WITT. v STREET RAILWAY CAR. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 3. 1917- 1348, 926. Patented Oct. 16,1917.

MI A lu'll-z-n PETER WITT, 0F CLEVELAND, OHIO.

STREET-RAILWAY CAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 3, 1917. Seria11 'o. 146,357.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PETER Win", acitizen of theUnited States, and a resident of Cleveland, county of Cuyahoga, and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Street-Railway Cars, of which the following is a specification, the principle of the invention being herein explained and the best mode in which I have contemplated applying that principle, so as to distinguish it from other inventions.

My invention relates to street railway cars and particularly to such cars as are convertible for use with either a one-man crew or a double crew. More particularly my invention relates to improvements upon that class of such cars which are provided with a plurality of doors used at the same time, particularly indouble crew operation, and usually disposed upon the same side of the car, such as, for instance, an end entrance and a side exit, as ordinarily used with a crew of two men, my improvements consisting in so rearranging the relative locations of the end door-way and the fare-box, that the motorman can satisfactorily and conveniently collect the fares when it is desired to operate the car with one man.

My improved street railway car, for the purposes above mentioned, is an improvement upon any street railway car provided with a plurality of doorways on the same side of the car, all of which doorways are used at the same time, when two or more operatives are running the car, and said improved car is particularly an improvement for these purposes upon the car patented to me April 25, 1916 by U. S. Letters Patent No. 1,180,900.

The annexed drawing and the following description set forth in detail certain means embodying my invention, the disclosed means, however, constituting'but one of various mechanical forms in which the principle of the invention may be employed.

In said annexed drawing Figure ,1 represents a broken side elevation of my improved street railway car; Fig. 2 represents a broken longitudinal horizontal section thereof; Fig. 3 represents a vertical section taken in the plane indicated by line 3- 3, Fig. 2; and Fig. 4 represents, in detail, the two arrangements of a dividmg rail and stanchion hereinafter fully described.

In said car shown in Patent No. 1,180,900, a

there was provided, as there is in the embodlment shown herein of my present improvements, a car body 1 with a front doorthe car is designed, when used with a double 7 crew, to furnish admittance through the front door-way and exit through the side door-way. As also pointed out in said patent, there is a flooring 4 and intermediately of the front door-way 2 and the front end of said flooring 4 is a depressed platform 5 whichis in reality a landing in the short stairway or set of steps which lead from the exterior of the car through the front door-way to the flooring 4, said landing being amplified to extend transversely across the whole car and thus provide at its inner end some little seating facilities or space for a stove, etc., as desired and as plainly shown in the accompanying drawing. -There is provided exteriorly of the car for the front door-way 2, a folding step 6, and interiorly of the car for the side door-way 3 are provided two steps and 8. When the car is used with a double crew, as pointed out in said Patent No. 1,180,900, the fare-box 9 is located intermediately of the end door-way and the side door-way and preferably adjacently to the latterand laterally thereof upon the fixed support 11 as shown in the drawing. The conductors stand 12 is provided, as shown, immediately back of the fare-box 9 and immediateiy adjacent to the side door-way 3. So far the design is similar to that shown in said Patent No. 1,180,900, and by an end doorway was meant a door-way in the side of the car near one end thereof and by a side door-- way a door in the side of the car a substantial distance from both ends thereof, preferably about the middle of the side of the car.

For the purpose of the improvements herein described, I have provided an extra base for the fare-box 9, Such base being designated as 10, Fig. 1, and, as shown, being removably secured to the body or flooring of the car adjacent to the motor-mans vestibule, and as shown in the accompanying drawing, it is located upon the platform 5 Patented one, is, rare,

immediately to the rear of the motor-mans vestibule and adjacently to the door-Way leading to said vestibule. The fare-box base is so located when the car is to be operated by one man and I referably, although not necessarily subdivi e the front door-way 2, when the car is so operated, into a plurality of openings, at least two, one for entrance and one for exit, and marked as plainly shown at 17 in Fig. 1. This exit sign, when the car is operated by a double crew will, of course, be removed and replaced by an entrance sign, inasmuch, as is plainly pointed out in the aforementioned patent, in this embodiment of my present invention the end door-way of the car is used solely as anentrance when two men are operating the car, suitable exit signs being then placed adjacently to the side doorway 3. This subdivision of the front door-way 2, when the car is operated by one man, is effected in any desired manner, one way of effecting the same being shown in the accompanying drawing in which a dividing railing is formed of three sections 13,1 1 and 15, as plainly shown in Fig. 1. When the front door-way 2 is to be used as an entrance only, and it is desired to-have said entrance free so as to provide an adequately wide passageway, the sec-- tion 13 of the dividing railing can be thrown upwardly by means of a pivotal connection with the section 14 and secured in the ceiling of the car so as to provide a hand railing or stanchion 16 upon the platform 5. The section 15 can be removed from the floor of the platform 5 and placed by the crew in any convenient corner of the car for use when it is again desired to form said dividing railing. Any means may be used for removably supporting the fare-box adjacently to the doorways, such meansbeing secured to the body or flooring of the car or even consisting of said body or flooring. In the embodiment of the invention shown and described herein some of said supporting means have been removably positioned and specifically the support adjacent to the front doorway has been described as being removably positioned.

I have providedby my improved design, hereinbefore fully described, a car which is immediately convertible from a one-man crew to a double crew or vice-versa, and thus have provided a car which can be used during the rush hours of the day as a double crew car in the normal manner and during the slow hours asa one-man crew. I thereby secure all of the advantages attaching to the car shown in my said Patent No. 1,180,900, in that embodiment of my invention shown herein and at the same time by the closing of the side-doonways thereofand the removal of the fare-box 9 from the fixed base 11 to the removable base 10, and the provision of the dividlng railing if desired, enable the car to be operated and th fares collected by one man, with economy of time, safety of the passengers, minimum loss of fares and above all, minimumcost of operation.

What I claim is 1. A street railway car, provided with an end doorway and a side doorway; a fare box removably supported adjacently to said side doorway; and a fare-box base removably mounted adjacently to said end doorway and adapted removably to support said fare-box.

2. A street railway car provided with a normal front entrance and a normal side exit; a fare-box normally removably supported adjacently to said exit; and a farebox base removably mounted adjacently to said entrance and adapted removably to support said fare-boxj 3. A street railway car provided with an end doorway and a side doorway; fare-box supports positioned adj acently to said doorways, respectively; and a fare-box adapted to be removably mounted upon either of said supports, the support adjacent to said front doorway being removably positioned.

4. A street railway car provided with an end doorway and a side doorway, the latter of which doorways is located a substantial distance from both ends of the car; a farebox adapted to be removably supported adjacently to either of said doorways; and

means for thus supporting said fare-box.

5. A street railway car provided with an end doorway and a side doorway, the latter of which doorways is located a substantial distance from both ends of the car; farebox bases mounted upon the flooring or body of the car and adjacently to said doorways, respectively; and a fare-box adapted to be removably supported upon, either of said bases.

6. A street railway car provided with an end door-way and a side door-way, the latter of which door-ways is located a substantial' distance from both ends of the car; fare-box bases mounted upon the flooring or body of the car and adjacently to said door-ways, respectively; and a fare-box adapted to be removably supported upon either of said bases, the base adjacent said front door-way being removably mounted.

upon said floorin or body.

7. A street rai way car provided with a front door-way and a side door-way, the latter of which door-ways is located a substantial distance from both ends of the car; fare-box bases mounted upon the flooring or body of the car and adjacently to said door-ways, respectively; a fare-box adapted to be removably supported upon either of said bases; and a dividing railing forming a plurality of openings in said front doorway, saidrailing comprising connected horineaaoae zontal and vertical members of a combined length substantially the height of the car.

8. A street railway car provided with a front door-way and a side door-way, the latter of which door-ways is located a substantial distance from both ends of the car;

fare-box bases mounted upon the flooring or body of the car and adjacently to said door-ways, respectively; a fare-box adapted to be removably supported upon either of said bases; and a dividing railing forming a plurality of openings in said front doorway, said railing comprising connected horizontal and inner vertical members of a combined length substantially the height of the car, and an outer vertical member removably seated in the car flooring adjacently to said front door-way.

9. A street railway car provided with a front door-way and a side door-way, the latter of which door-ways is located a substantial distance from both ends of the car; fare-box bases mounted upon the flooring or body of the car laterally of and adjacently to said side door-way and opposite said front door-Way, respectively; and a farebox adapted to be removably supported upon either of said bases.

10. A street railway car provided with an end doorway and a side doorway; farebox bases mounted upon the floorin or body of the car and adjacently to said ourways, respectively; a fare-box adapted to be removably supported upon either of said bases; and a dividing railing forming a plurality of openlngs in said front door- 11. A. street rallway car rovided with an end doorway and aside cor-way; fare ,fare-box bases mounted u on the flooring or body of the car and a jacently to said door-ways, respectively; a fare-box adapted to be removably supported upon either of said bases, the base adjacent said front door-way being removably mounted in said flooring or body; and a dividing railin forming a plurality of openings in sai front door-way.

13. A street railway car provided with an end door-way and aside door-way, the latter being located a substantial distance from both ends of the car; two fare-box bases mounted upon the flooring or body of the car, one of them intermediately of said two door-ways, and laterally of and adjacently to said side door-way, and the other opposite to said end door-way; a fare-box adapted to be removably supported upon either of said bases; and a removable dividing railing positioned adj acently to said end door-way and forming a plurality of openings therein.

Signed by me, thls 31st day of January,

PETER 'lT. 

